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In computing, a dump refers to recording the contents of the working memory of a computer program or operating system at a specific time, generally when it has terminated abnormally (crashed). Dumps are written to file and can be useful in debugging and diagnosing the crash that prompted the dump.

This is becoming a nightmare, we have no clue on why this server is rebooting each 800 minutes.
This issue started on the night from 05th to 06th of January, so it is a kind of present.
I come form ...

we are experiencing random BSODs inside a customers VMware-hosted RemoteDesktop-server. The BSODs happen nearly weekly. Curious thing is, the virtual machine does not write any dumps we could analyze, ...

I'm looking for a way to take a non-intrusive coredump of a running process on Linux.
I'm familiar with gdb's gcore, but that can only be run when gdb is attached to the process and it's stopped for ...

I am chrooted and running out of drive space, so I mounted back to the host drive which has plenty of space but cannot seem to redirect the outputted data to my empty drive
[root@localhost rra]# ls ...

I'm running a website using IIS (on Azure Websites) and if I try to take a dump of the w3wp.exe process running that website it'll randomly either take the dump as expected or freeze the w3wp process ...

The setup is as follows. Ubuntu-11.10 VM running on an ESXi host. The VM has 3 vCPU assigned.
When running dump (to backup the harddisk) it seems all the processes are assigned to the first vCPU. As ...

Easy points. On my mac, postgres.app 9.2, I ran "pg_dump pdbt > pdbt.sql". It used up all my space and then failed with the error below. Now I want to free up the space taken up by "pdbt.sql" but I ...

I need to be able to collect core dumps, but since Asterisk's CWD is / (so claims procfs), it'll never be able to write them. I've confirmed my suspicions by allowing world write to / and SIGABRT the ...

I want to dump all request that nginx is getting for a specific location so I can debug a strange problem that I have.
Usually tcpdump would be the solution but remember that nginx is accessed using ...

One of my Mysql replication servers has rebooted during the night and i'm trying to find the reason.
Running the command last shows this line:
reboot system boot 2.6.32-71.29.1.e Wed Jul 31 04:37 - ...

I have a problem with a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server running withing VMWare. The server is running Citrix and also has Symantec Endpoint protection installed. It randomly crashes and goes ...

I am having an issue which there must be a simple solution I am not seeing, but I have googled and googled to no avail.
The issue I am having is when I do a server (physical machine) restart, every ...

Normally when an application crashes I can extract the technical details which will lead me to a crash dump file that I can analyze. ( example here ).
However one of our applications keeps crashing ...

I have CentOS 5.8 system. And I want to set up the kdump.
I was following this configuration steps on kdump.
However I was not able to locate /etc/kdump.conf.
I tried using the find and locate command ...

I'm trying to dump my SVN repository in a scheduled task.
The problem is that when it's running in the scheduled task its only outputting a part of the repository (about 476MB instead of about 2G).
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Question :
How to dump data (byte-stream) written from an application to the filesystem ? (something like tcpdump but for IO/file).
Ideally it should be able to "attach" and dump the stream while it ...

I'm a linux user, however, I'm provided with a Windows laptop in the office. I could fire up a small web server with PHPmyadmin or even upload to a remote system and import into a database, however, ...

I am having trouble with migrating a SVN (version 1.2.3) repo to a new server. In the process I want to update the repo and server to the latest SVN version.
I have tried dumping the repo, but found ...

To be honest I don't have experience working with Apache. I'm just putting the best of my intentions on solving this and don't know if I'm making it right. So any help will be greatly appreciated.
We ...

We have a postgres-databse under windows, that is version 9.1. From that we want to dump the data and import under a Linux-server, that runs Postgres 8.4. The data include spatial data with Postgis.
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I believe our organization has a MSDN subscription from Microsoft. While scouring the Internet for information to assist with crash dump analysis I noticed a post stating that there is some limited ...

I am running ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a remote root server and almost the same setup on a development server over virtualbox. My goal is to backup the remote root server to an ftp-account. In case the hard ...